Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2009

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for January asks what are your challenges, plans and predictions for 2009? Here are my offerings: Challenges Keeping innovation and change on the agenda when all anyone's interested in is survival. Keeping the income flowing in when spending on external contractors could take a hit.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

When I started blogging, I saw it primarily as an activity for personal reflection, a way of clarifying and externalising my thoughts. And when you start blogging that's pretty well all you can do, because it takes time to attract readers. As a result, I came to the conclusion in 2009 that blogging is journalism , pure and simple.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2010

The Big Question for July on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is “Does the discussion of ‘how the brain learns’ impact your elearning design?” To emphasise the extent of this discussion, Tony Karrer lists 32 blog postings, including two of mine: Brain rules – where does that leave us?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 13, 2010

The Big Question for January in the Learning Circuits Blog is, rather predictably, what are your predictions for 2010? In 2009 I predicted : Most of the cool stuff (informal learning, social media, games and sims, mobile learning) will have to stay on the back burner, because management will simply not be interested in experimenting.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2010

There was some consternation on Twitter about the results of the survey that Alison Rossett and James Marshall conducted with 968 ASTD and eLearning Guild members in mid 2009.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 4, 2009

I've spent a couple of happy hours poring over Connie Malamed 's luxuriant new tome Visual language for designers , (Rockport, 2009). Certainly when I ordered the book, it never occurred to me that this was the same person who runs the really excellent blog, The eLearning Coach.

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